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Ari Lennox is asking her record labels, Interscope and J. Cole’s imprint Dreamville, to release her from her contract.
The singer says she feels “played.”
“I told management I didn’t want this recent video to come out because I’m tired of people treating me like I’m the face of mental health,” she said via Instagram. “I’m tired of people treating me like they’re so sorry for me. I’m a human being who has just been very transparent about my life.”
Ari signed with J. Cole’s Dreamville Records, an imprint of Interscope Records as the former label’s first female artist in 2015. She started gaining recognition after the release of her second extended play (EP) and major label debut, Pho (2016). That same year, she appeared uncredited on Cole’s song “Change”.
None of her subsequent projects have popped the way Ari or her fans have expected them to.
She says the labels released a video she did not want to release.
“They told me that they would take it down, they told me that it wouldn’t come out,” she added. “And apparently they’re telling me that the video, the people in charge of the video, were unresponsive. But they’re like, ‘everyone loves the video’ so they’re going to keep it up.”
She wishes the labels had protected her.
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